Belden Batiste, a candidate for the New Orleans City Council District D, said today that the City Council should not extend several multi-year no-bid legal contracts initially authorized by Mayor LaToya Cantrell more than five years ago. The Council’s Budget Audit Committee will review the proposed contract extensions as part of a long agenda […]
On Thursday, August 22 the New Orleans City Council voted to pay tens of millions owed to plaintiffs whose decades-old judgments against the city have never been collected. Among the types of cases lining up for payments include disputes over city contracts, accidents involving police vehicles, Uber lawsuits, and wrongful death judgments. The estimated amount […]
In typical David vs. Goliath fashion, in a Civil District Court filing on January 16, 2024, Sher Garner — a politically connected firm favored by Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration and thought to be still on contract to represent her office — apparently ganged up against “the little guy” taxi cab drivers in 2018 to deep-six […]
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